by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2011
7th Righthaven Suit Dismissed
For the seventh time in nine weeks, a U.S. judge dismissed a case filed by Righthaven because the copyright company...
Media Business Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2011
Dan Gillmor on Op-Eds:
Dan Gillmor criticized the media's willingness to publish op-eds that are ghost-written or essentially "public relations tactics" in a column...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 27, 2011
Sweet & Maxwell Research: More Libel Lawsuits against Bloggers, Social Media Users This Year
Legal information group Sweet & Maxwell produced research indicating that libel lawsuits originating from social networking and blog sites have...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 27, 2011
Ghana Media Influenced by Politicians?
Cornelius Pratt argued that there is "a distinction between journalism as a duty and journalism as a mission," Ghana Broadcasting...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 31, 2011
News International Reviewing Standards
News International, which is the parent company for News Corp's UK news outlets, told Yahoo News it is reviewing its...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 01, 2011
Chicago CBS-Affiliate Denies Racism Charges, Apologizes again for Out-of-Context Quote
As iMediaEthics previously wrote, the Chicago CBS-affiliate WBBM apologized after taking a four-year-old boy's comments on guns out of context. In...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 03, 2011
Le Monde: French Govt. Searched Reporter’s Phone Records to Find out Anonymous Source’s identity
French newspaper Le Monde has alleged that French president Nicolas Sarkozy's secret services "spied on one of its journalists to...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
NYT Business Editor Ingrassia Rejects Ombudsman’s Criticism of Dealbook
In his Aug. 27 column, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane criticized NYT's "financial news service" section, DealBook, and suggested the site...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
Does Al Sharpton Know Endorsement Guidelines for MSNBC?
Al Sharpton, who was recently hired as an MSNBC host, reportedly told the Wall Street Journal he thought he could...